As a person who has been censored by Facebook for wrongthink, watching them stare down the barrel of Apple "being a private company, and doing what they want" is like watching a kid step on a lego brick that he refused to clean up.
I have an example: I tried sending a Simpson gif of Flanders whipping himself to a friend on WhatsApp (1 to 1 message), whatsApp silently refused to send it....
Not sure why this was dead, or why Apple seems to get a pass on this walled-garden behavior. If Microsoft were to require Windows apps to be installed from the store, people would be outraged. When it's done on mobile (how the majority of the world accesses computing these days), it's seen as a valid "security measure".
Apple doesn't require apps be installed from the Mac App Store. If they did, people would be outraged.
People have different expectations from smartphones (tables, and Chromebooks as well). So long as you know what you are getting when you buy it, this isn't an issue.
Apple doesn't make phones to be hacked or tweaked or whatever, they make them to be simple to use and as secure as possible. For most people, this is far more interesting and appealing than being able to side load apps.
Isn't the Pine Phone fundamentally a device made for hackers?
Fundamentally, the market for hacker oriented products is far smaller and less interesting than the market for iPhones. So hacker oriented tech is by nature going to lag the market or be more expensive.
It's only a matter of time before Substack gets enough pressure from its employees or its payments provider and starts censoring "inappropriate" content.
(The definition of "inappropriate" being "whatever people on Twitter dislike today".)
Considering that Substack's model is designed to attract independent thinkers with a following, I assume they are taking a very close look at their talent pipeline to avoid this issue. That would actually be a competitive advantage for them.
It seems like they let anything on, if it generates income. When you have Dana Loesch, I'm not sure you can be described as attracting independent thinkers, unless that's new code for outrage warrior. Looks to me like another platform (e.g. not Patreon/FansOnly) for influencers to monetize their more affluent (e.g. have $3/mo to spend) clientele.
Substack still likes drama, "In November, an anonymous Substack account published a newsletter titled “vote_pattern_analysis,” with a single, elaborate post claiming election fraud. On Twitter, the link was tagged with a fact-check label. For a time in December, the newsletter became one of the top free publications on Substack.", but I doubt it will descend into reddit territory.
Letting SV entrepreneurs set the standard for editorial ethics is guaranteed to suck. They'll either cash in on conspiracy nonsense or censor arbitrarily.
OpenEMR exists because during the summer of 2000, with the dot-com boom in full swing on the left side of the United States, four high school students in Cheshire, Connecticut spent the humid part of our year in a basement writing PHP code to manage documents for an internal medicine practice that belonged to one of the students' mothers.
It worked well enough. The four of us were all college-bound in different directions, so instead of trying to sell the software to medical practices, we released it under the GPL. Open source contributors took it from there.
A very well-researched book that challenges, adequately in my opinion, some of the fundamental assumptions about nuclear weapons. First and foremost, that "the atomic bombs ended the war with Japan".
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" http://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-25th-Anniversary/dp... is a fantastic book for anybody in a technical field. It describes in precise detail how a team of scientists, materials engineers, and government came together to make possible something that started as theoretical physics.
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were a fascinating team, Oppenheimer being a physicist and Groves an Army general.
Its sequel, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb [1] is also great. It deals with Edward Teller's hydrogen bomb, the nuclear spies (Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, etc.), the beginning of the cold war, Oppenheimer's ambitious attempts at atomic regulation, and his subsequent trial. TMAB stands out, however; it is superb in its panoramic, often lyrical depiction of science and philosophy coming together in a broad cast of scientists. Much of Dark Sun is about spies, cops and military figures, and its subject matter is somewhat more prosaic.
